Separated at Birth

Wendy (Life with Buck) recently posted an adorable photo of herself as a child. I was immediately reminded of Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird, and our friend Moonbeam McQueen confirmed this. So here’s the proof:

Wendy, I will be happy to remove this post if you wish, but you really ought to give your long lost sister, Mary Badham, a call don’t you think?

I love it. That’s amazing. It probably really is Wendy and she’s just too humble to tell us about it. Mary Badham was just her stage name. I love that movie. It still stands as one of my favorites. I’ve read the book a few times too.

OH YEAH. Hummmpphh. Thanks for the warning Ceridwen! I only looked at moonbeam’s picture find for a couple of seconds, so I think I’ll be spared the nightmares.

But it does raise the topic of how wrong the title of this post is. Clearly Mary Badham was born WAY before Wendy! So they were “Separated at Birth” by about a decade. Not that we need to know that exactly or anything …

However, from Wendy’s spirited postings, I think we can assume that she shares the same plucky spirit of the character of “Scout” Finch. Remember how she chided that poor kid at the dinner table when he covered his mashed potatoes with syrup? “What in the sam hill are you doin!?” she asked. Atticus admonished her for her bluntness. The IMDB entry on this triple Oscar winner is surprisingly empty of detail. This picture was released on xmas day of 1962. That was our last merry xmas.

LOL You guys are freaking killing me! I can’t stop laughing long enough to be clever, you’re all too funny:
“…declared unholy by Vatican 2.5 in January of 1967. Pope Paul was allowed to continue wearing it however, under his pope-hat” ?

“It makes me think of Wendy dressed up like a ham” ?

“…Good I wasn’t drinking anything or I would have spit it out all over my keyboard…”

I forgot to say I love that movie, and the book. It’s a wonderful book to read in the summer, and the humor has held up even now. (And by “even now” I don’t mean now that we’ve been exposed to that link from MB) 🙂